What is recorded here

Cross-inscribed pillar in Inishmurray is a cross-inscribed pillar in Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland. It stands in Templenaman church as National Monument number 117 in state ownership. The surviving slab is 1.06 metres high and 0.23 metre wide, with a broken cross at the top and simple incised marks in its four quadrants.

Located in Templenaman church (SL001-002001-). Slab (H: 1.06 m, W: 0.23 m, Th: 0.084) with incised, slightly shafted cross at the top, part of which has been broken off (>0.215 m by 0.18 m). In each of the upper quadrants an ‘L’ shaped incision contours the lines of the arms, and in each of the lower quadrants a single line is incised parallel to the shaft. This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership. The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in: Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press. Date of upload: 16 January 2018

Probably dates to the early Christian period (5th–9th century AD), based on the cross inscription. Such crosses were often associated with monastic or ecclesiastical sites and may have had a liturgical or commemorative function.

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